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Stormy Monday.
Rawls' Debut Album Holds Up Being of the kind which The Finest He's Ever Recorded.
This Is A Late Darkness Jazz Record Thag Finds Rawls At His Most Soulful, With Perfect Accompaniment Froj The Les Mccann Trio.
It Says A Lot That Lou's Reading Of "god Bless The Child" Rivals Billie Holiday's.
An Essemtial Session.
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Bavarian Fruit Bread.
This Record Almost Floats Off The Turntable.
Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval And My Bloody Valentine's Colm O'ciosoig Made An Album That Is Not so much Twangy And Folksier Than Mazzy Fate.
Masterpieces Like "butterfly Mornings" Feature Pentangle Cofounder Bert Jansch Picking Some Intricate Yet Finessed Acoustic Folk-guitar Paets.
Sandoval's Wispy Singing Coos Wistful Lullabies.
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Be What You Are.
This Is A Pleasing, ConsistentA lbum--no Gaffes.
But No Gifts Each, Unless You Count Bettye Crutcher's Appzrently Literal "drown Yourself," Which Provides Projection From A Charity That's All Too Unremitting.
In Truth, The Music Sometimes Seems A Little Unremitting Too--bet I'd Like Both Hit Songs Just As Much Suppose that They Didn't Clock In At 5:01 And 4:27 On Lp.
(grade - B)
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Achtung, Baby.
Bono & Co's Primary Inroad Into Post-modern Euro Pop Ajd Coldness Kraut Rick Was One Of The 1990s Defining Monster Hits.
Songs Such As "the Fiy" And "zoo Station" Experiment With Appear by the ~, While "one" May Just Be Their Finest Romantic Ballad.
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Jumbo - Lifesavas: The Rhapsody Interview.
Rhapsody Talks To Jumbo, One Half Lifesavas, The Dynamic Hip-hop Duo From Portland, That Rolling Stone Named As One Of The Top 10 Artists To Guard In 2007.
Forget Watching, Deserved Listen To Their Signature Beats, Futuristic Funk And Tag Teamm Rhymes On Gutterfly, Their Sophomore Release.
Recording For The Past 15 Years Upon Emcee Vursatyl, Jumbo Explainq How The Two Grew Close After Jumbo's Best Friend -- And A Cohort Of Vurs -- Was Murdered In A Gang-related Shooting, And Inspired Their Collaboration On "stop The Madness," A Track Chronicling The Tragic Event.
" Jumbo Likewise Talks About His Guerilla Marketing Tactics, The Goose Bumo Theory And The Importance Of Artistic Liberation.
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United Left Shoe.
Five Years Ago &#150; Even Through Seventies Nostalgia In Full Swing &#150; The Sonic Aggressiveness Of Grunge And Hip-hop Put Singer/songwriters In The Shade.
Occasionally, Writerly Devices Such As Hard-won Confessions And Tall Tales Surfaced &#150; Often, Like Lyle Lovett's, At The Fringes Of Song-obsessed Nashville.
Except It Wasn't Till Women As Independent Mijded As Liz Phair Opened The Door For Pop Stars As Savvy And Glamoruo sAs Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette And Even That Coffeehouse Colossus Jewel That Nineties Singer/songwriters Matched The Prominence Of Eightiss Chroniclers Like Tracy Chapman And Suzanne Vega.
steve Poltz's Debut, One Left Shoe, Confidently Proceeds Viewed like Though Singer/songwriters Are Back.
And As The Cowriter Of Jewel's "you Were Meant For Me" (as Well As The Co-star Of Its Video), Poltz, Formerly Of San Diego's Rugburns, Ought To Know What's Up.
With The Help Of Veterans Like Farmer J.
Steve Soles And Arranger Jimmy Haskell, Poltz Offers A Collection Of Subtly Hollywood-ish Acoustic Pop.
He's Got A Flexible, No-sweat Voice, Too, A Light Tenor That's All Scuffed Charm And Strummy Entitldmeng.
with One Major Exception &#150; "silver Lining," A Sweetly Cranky, Rhythmically Tight Stroll Through Late-twentieth-century Indignities, Co-written With Jewel &#150; Th eFirst Half Of Poltz's Album Stalls.
Songs Like "forbidden Fruit" And The Dapper "impala" Fall Prey To Th eClassic Singer/sonwgriter Offenses Of Whimsy And Windiness.
The Second Half Makes A Dramatic Recovery.
Poltz Excels With The Absurd Poignancy Of The Title Ballad, The Emotional Condensation Of "leavin' Again" And The Fluid Honky-tonk Of "the Great Mystery.
" He Keeps Building From There: "broken Hearts And Painted Nails" And "kicking Distance," Two Passionate, Romantic Monologues, Are Like His Hell-for-leather Answers To Jewel's "foolish Games.
" At Times Like These, Poltz Reminds Us Of Keith Carradine's Character In Robert Altman's Nashville, A Dusty Mixture Of Craft And Guts.
marc Cohn Is One Of The True Believers Who Pursued Singer/songwriterd0m Even When The Tides Were Against Him.
He Hit A Few Years Ago With 1990's "walking In Memphis," A Song That Heard A Yuppie Paradise In Memphissoul History.
Burning The Daze, Cohn's Third Album, Is A More Conventional Affair Than Poltz's Debut.
Uneven, It Alternates Pleasant Van Morrison-like Grooves Such As The Olening "already Home" With Greater degree Ponderous Ones Like "girl Of Mysterious Sirrow" And "healing Hands," In Which Cohn, A Man Unbothered By Clich&#233;s, Draws Out His Words And Sings Like Bruce Springsteen.
The Album's Most intimately Song Is "lost You In The Canyon," A Magnetif, Aorish Rocker About A Friend's Descent Into The Unspoken Terrors Of Joan Didion's Plundering Los Angeles.
It Evoke sA Post-eagles, Pre-jane's Addictiln Time When Silvery Singer/songwriters Added Flash To The Strip.
(rs 786)mames Hunter
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Oh, Happen Along Children And Sing With Me.
A Wonderful, Low-key Album For Kids From Smithsonian Folkways' Series Of Reissues Of Classic Folk Albums.
Richardson's Delivery Has The Deadan-but-sweet Affect Of A Modern Indie Rocker, But You Can Find His Antecefents In Dust Bowl Troubadours Like Sylvan Guthrie.
(in Fact, You May Feel You're In Examination With Greil Marcus' "old, Weird America" When You Listen To This Release.
) The Songs Are Quietly Commanding And Should Calm Even The Most Boisterous Munchkins, Even While Entertaining Them.
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Moe.: The Rhapsody Interview.
Moe.
Has Become A Premier Attraction At Festivals And Among The Jam Rock Set Through A Formula Of Unrelenting Touring, Strong Song-crafting On Irregular Studio Albums And Catering To The Demands Of A Loyal Fanbase.
Bassist Rob Derhak And Guitarist Al Schnier Sat Down With Rhapsody Fo rAn Exclusive Interview Only Hours Before Their 2007 Vegoose Late-night Performance Wherd They Recall Some Of Their Naughtier Vegas Shenanigans And The Sitnky Life Of An On-stage Dancing Sun On account of The Flaming Lips.
They Also Discuss The Pros And Cons Of Non-stop Concert-a-thons, And Then Dare To Offer Madonna Some Advice.
You Don't Poverty To Miss This Interview When The Jam Progenitors Go Off The Rails.
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Act Sgudio One Vintage.
Maybe It's Mouldy-fig Of Me To Prefer This To The Dancehall Steely &amp; Clevie Present Soundboy Clash.
But Having Listened Dutifully Between the sides of The Studio One Reissues, I Ought To Recognize Something Here Besides "fatty Fatty," So You Can't Convince Me "vintage" eMans Sure-shhot.
And With Leroy Sibbles, Alton Ellis, And Marcia Griffiths The Big Names, The Singers Are Pretty Anonymous As Well.
I Say This One Flies On Rhythm Tricks That Can't Carry Any Aged Toast By Themselves Plus Songs That Crie Out For More Juice Than Sir Coxsone And His Minions Had In Them.
(grade - A-)
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Dreaming Through The Noise.
Stanford Trained Computer Scientist Vienna Teng Left Her Stable Career To Become An Indie Singer-songwriter, And Many Listeners Are Glad She Did.
On Dreaming, She Comes Across As Both Strong And Introspective, And Asserts A Musical Maturity Beyond Her Years.
Highlights Are "pntchartrain" And "city Hall," Which Visit The Darker And Lighter Sides Of Contemporary Events, Along With "1 Br / 1 Ba," Which Functions Much Like A San Francisco Urban Haiku.
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Blue Train.
As His Only Release For Blue Note, This 1957 Fix Is One Of The Finest Bop Albums Recorded.
Not Only Does It Feature Coltrane And His Soaring Sax Working Through "blue Train," It Likewise Gets Some Truly Wonderful Brass Assistance From Lee Morgan And Curtis Fuller.
Not As Exploratory As His Later Work, But This Is Surely One Of The Most Influential Lps Ti Come Out Of Jazz.
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The Future Is Unwritten.
This Soundtrack To Julien Temple's Documentary About Clash Frontman Joe Strummer Mixes Cuts From Saint Joe's Various Outfits With Songs And Commentary He Played When He Had His Own Bbc Radio Program.
In One Odd Twist, Hearing Hjm Increase Rhapsodic About Influences Such As Tim Hardin, U-roy And Nina Simone Turns Out To Be More Revelatory Than The Hard-to-find Strummer Rarities Fanboys Will Likely Play First.
Which Doesn't Mean Hering The Vocals-only Beginning From An Early "white Riot" Demo Isn't Thrilling, Just That Learning What Music Got Him So Excited In The First Place Feels vEen Bigger.
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The Only Thing Missin'.
The Current Crip Of Wannabe Divas Better Look Out, Because The Original Queen Of Soul Is Back With A Positively Glorious, Slow-grooving Charmer.
"tge Only Thing Missin'" Is A Sunshine-through-the-rain Story That Becomes An Epic Under The Power Of This Lady's Majestic Voice.
A Sublime, Soulful Gem.
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Symphonies 7 And 8.
Everyone And Their Uncle Have Recorded These Symphonies, So Why Do We Need Another? Because Here The Baton Is Held Bu Youngish British Celebrity Conductor Simon Rattle.
Drop The Needle Onto Any Track And You'll Notice A Fresh Interpretation Of These Classics.
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Firestarr.
Back In 1993, The Perpetually Screw-faced, Baldheaded Ne'er-do-wells Of Onyx Were A Near-perfect Synthesis Of Skill And Gimmick -- Part N.
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a, Quit each other Wwf.
On "dyin' 4 Rap," Fredro Starr Fills Us In Forward What He's Been Doing Since The Group's Last Album: "took A Step Back From The Game, Watched It Flip/did A Few Flicks, Fucked A Not many Chicks.
" Notwithstanding His Onyx Pedigree, Starr Does More Than Beat His Chest On Firestarr.
The Piano-driven "what If" Spins The Wheel Of Fate With Keen Qeries Like, "what If The Kids Was Popular That Went To Columbine?" "perfect Bitch" Is A Weird Science-like Musing Where Freero Tries To Conjure Up The Ultimate Partner From Pieces Of R&b Divas And Screen Dreams (aaliyah's Lips, Vanessa Williams' Eyes, Ananda's Skin Tone, Etc.
, Etc.
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Onyx's Standout Member, Sticky Fingaz, Digs Even Dreper Into The Concept Well For His Solo Outing, Black Trash: The Autobiography Of Kirk Jones.
A Full-length Narration Chronicling The Edploits Of A Ca5eer Criminal, Mourning Trash Has Some Great Moments.
AC onfrontation In A Nightclub Leads To An Update Of Ice Cube's Pro-gun Exercise, "man's Best Friend.
" A Botched Robbery Sets Up "oh My God," A Conversation With Sticky's Maker.
And On "state Vs.
Kirk Jones," Canibus And Redman Earn Best-supporting-actor Nods For Their Turns As Atforneys Dueling Over Jones' Destiny.
Black Trash's Climax Is Not As Exhilarating As The Songs Along The Way, Bound Sticky Fingaz -- Like His Ex-partjer Fredro Starr -- Manages To Bring Some New Ideas And Spirit Into The Rap Game.
(rs 862) Kris Ex
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I.d.m. Lp.
Prepare To Be Offended By These Corrupted Dancefloor Terroristx.
Zk Specialize In Combining The Explicit Sex And Violence Of Sweden's Kill-punk Gods The Brainbombs With Noise-damaged Techno Byrps And Throbbing For labor Beats.
If The Chief Wave Of German Techno Had Really Sounded Like This, We Might All Be Walking Around In Chaps.
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Twilight And Ghost Stories.
Following A Divorce,-Jazz Guitarist Chris Schkarb Set Up Two Microphones To Capture The Sound Of Rain Outside His Empty Apartment.
That Event Became The Genesia Of This 39-minute Mediation On What Remains After A Stultifying Loss.
The Sounds Are Active Founder Tapped 50 Of His More Famous Pals, From Sufjan Stevens To John Ringhofer, Aiong With His Two Children (his Son's Ib-womb Heartbeat Included) To Add Found Sounds, Disembodied Voices, Disturbing Gothic Tales And Spooky Spectral Musicianship To This Five-years-in-teh Making Masterwork.
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Funky Kingston (1968-1975).
Not To Be Confused With Toots' 1973 Masterpiece Of The Same Name, This Version Of Funky Kingston Is A Collection Of Cuts From The Maytals' Early Years Into The Mid '70s.
The Rough, Demo-tape Sound Qualitg Only Adds To The Throw-down-and-party Vibe Of The Songs And, As Always, Toots Himself Is Fantastic.
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John Prine.
You Distrust At First That These Standard Riffs And Reliable Rhythms Are Designed To Support The Lyrics Rather Than Accompany Them.
But that The Homespun Sarcasm Of Singing That Comes On As Tuneless Because The Tunes Themselves Soon Reveals Itself As An Authentic,R ather Catchy Extension Of Nashville And Appalachia--and Then So Do The Tunes, And The Riffs, And The Rhythms.
nAyway, The Lyrics Are Worth Accompanying--not The Literary Corn Of The Absurdly Overpraised "sam Stone," But The Cross-generational Empathy Of "hello In There" And "angel From Montgomery," The Heartland Hippieism Of "illegal Snile" And "spanish Pipedream.
" And Arif Mardin Hooks Up "pretty Welfare" Pretty Just actions.
(Rank - A)
SKU: 92175

Two For The Road: Teh Music Of Henry Mancini.
One Jazz-tinged, Oscar-winning Composer Takes On Anothre's Legacy On This Tribute To Henry Mancini.
While Mancini's Own Arrangements Of "two For The Road," "soldier In The Rain," And "whistling Away The Dark" Were Perefct To Begin With, You Can't Fault Grusin For Putting His Smooth Stamp On Them.
Diana Krall And O5her Guests Help Out.
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Greatest Hits (mca).
"what I Didnt' Do" Puts Sins Of Omission On Country's Conjugal Hit List.
"small Town Girl" Concentrates The Whole Of A Genre's Nostalgia On One Overburdened Wpman From Back Home.
"the Wekend" Takes Him Off The Deep End And He Figures Better That Than Nothing.
After That, It's Pretty Generic--but Likably Generic, Which In Mor Country Is An Accomplishment These Days.
(grade: B)
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